Yoon Hee-sook: "Government Made a 'Sucker Contract' with Moderna... Mocking the People"

Yoon Hee-sook, People Power Party member
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[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] Yoon Hee-sook, a presidential candidate from the People Power Party, criticized President Moon Jae-in, calling the contract with Moderna a "fool's contract" after media reports revealed that the government did not specify the quarterly supply volume in the vaccine supply contract with Moderna.

On the 18th, Yoon posted on her Facebook titled "The Blue House, Moderna's Foolish Customer, Signed a Fool's Contract and Is Mocking the People with an Anger Show," stating, "A grand public deception related to Moderna has been exposed. According to the media, the government signed a vaccine supply contract with Moderna without specifically agreeing on the 'quarterly' supply volume."

She continued, "At the end of last year, while making such a foolish contract, did the president just show off by releasing a video call scene with the Moderna CEO?" and raised her voice, "The supply contracts disclosed by the United States and the European Union reportedly include supply volumes by period and month."

Regarding the statement on the 9th by the Minister of Health and Welfare and the head of the Central Disease Control Headquarters that vaccine supply was low due to Moderna's production delays, she said, "Isn't this a lie? The fundamental cause of the vaccine shortage lies in the contract that failed to specifically guarantee the supply schedule," adding, "The government said the vaccine shortage is a global phenomenon. South Korea's vaccination rate is 15%, the lowest among OECD countries. This is not a global phenomenon but a Korean phenomenon."

Concerning the government's visit to Moderna's U.S. headquarters to protest production delays but achieving little, Yoon said, "In a way, this is natural. It is because the contract was poorly made from the start," and sharply criticized, "The purpose of the protest visit was not to secure supply volume but a public anger cosplay."

She then condemned, "The Moon administration's epidemic control is not science but sadism. Now it can be called fake beyond sadism. 'Ga'hak (pseudo) epidemic control and 'Ga'jja (fake) epidemic control, this is K-quarantine."

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